Author: Mohamed M. Shoukri
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: agreement, interobserver, measures
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2003-07-28
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 1584883219
ISBN-13: 9781584883210

Agreement among at least two evaluators is an issue of prime importance to statisticians, clinicians, epidemiologists, psychologists, and many other scientists. Measuring interobserver agreement is a method used to evaluate inconsistencies in findings from different evaluators who collect the same or similar information. Highlighting applications over theory, Measure of Interobserver Agreement provides a comprehensive survey of this method and includes standards and directions on how to run sound reliability and agreement studies in clinical settings and other types of investigations. The auth